Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Today’s topic: May 23: Things That Make Me Instantly Want to Read a Book (these can be auto-buy authors, tropes you love, if an author you love blurbed it, settings, genres, etc.)
Concepts
Retellings- fairytales, myths, Jane Austen, I love any book that takes a known story and twists it.
Dual timelines with connected stories
Romances with marriages of convenience or fake relationships
Settings
Greece
Scotland/Ireland
Locations or historical time periods which are unique and not as well-known
Characters
Librarians, Bookshop Owners or Writers
Bakers/Chefs
Female Warriors
Real people from the past whose stories are not well known (people from marginalized groups, or people on the sidelines of more famous historical figures)
I like seeing bakers and chefs in books, too.
Here is my Top Ten Tuesday post.